Pollution Movies

Plastic Peril explores the devastating impact of plastic waste on the waterways and drainage systems of Lagos, Nigeria. This thought-provoking...

While making a documentary about a heavily polluted town, an ambitious filmmaker takes interest in a reserved teenager as a compelling subject.

More than two decades after the Clean Water Act was supposed to make America’s waters clean enough for swimming and fishing again, two iconic...

This film investigates and raises awareness about the perennial pollutants PFAS, present in many everyday products, including beauty products,...

Acid rain, economic development, and a century of mining pollute Rocky Mountain waters.

Dzerzhinsk, a Russian city 240 miles east of Moscow, is considered the most chemically polluted town on Earth. Factories producing industrial...

In a modern version of Ibsen's stage play, we meet TV-celebrity Tomas Stockman returning to his native village to produce the world's purest bottled...

“Detritus” is a visual experience that observes Barcelona through the waste left behind by its inhabitants: furniture, paper, plastic,...

In autumn 2016, demonstrations sprang up all over Europe against the CETA free-trade agreement between the European Union and Canada. The reason? An...

In a heavily polluted world, a young woman mourns the disappearance of animal species. When she falls ill due to a bacterial infection, nature...

A meek young man allows a stripper to stay in his house while his domineering mother is hospitalized.

The Smog blanketed the planet forcing people to live confined. But when you are 15 like Juliette, real life truly begins outside.

After drug crops are sprayed with a chemical by a passing airplane, the growers of the crop are poisoned by the chemical and turn into zombie-like...

Under the sun, the heavenly beauty of grasslands will soon be covered by the raging dust of mines. Facing the ashes and noises caused by heavy mining...

Eleni Mylonas’ SeaMonster II, is a performance for the camera drawing attention to the problem of plastic pollution in the Mediterranean Sea....

An unbearable stench makes quite wide confusion among the residents of Belgrade. The microbiologist Pavle can not remember immediately where he...

Tamara is from the ocean and water runs in her veins. Born in a fishing village on the Mexican coast, she became a full-time scuba instructor. When...

With input from actor and writer Jan Hlobil, director and cinematographer Rene Smaal presents a film in the true surrealist tradition, in the sense...

In Tacony Creek Park, home to one of Philadelphia's lesser-known watersheds, Julie Slavet and Malcolm Bundy reflect on their involvement with and...

Ferry owner Benjamin has a regular passenger, Chedeng, who is studying to become a midwife. Chedeng has a friend and neighbour, Maria, and without...